2024-09-22 –, Hall C+D
The Android Virtualisation Framework supports the creation of confidential (aka "protected") guests which provide a native code environment for confidential payloads that require isolation from the rest of the Android Operating System. However, the guest kernel requires a little enlightenment to function usefully in a protected environment.
This talk will describe the protected VM environment provided by pKVM, the guest changes necessary for it to work properly, how it differs from some of the other CoCo efforts and finally demonstrate the guest-side changes running on top of the latest upstream kernel as a protected guest on a real Android phone.
Android kernel hacker at Google.